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Devil Carrying off a Soul, after Michelangelo

After Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475-1564

Devil Carrying off a Soul, after Michelangelo

5 1/8 x 4 7/16 inches (130 x 114 mm)
Black chalk on paper.
1979.20

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Venusti's version of Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel, made for Alessandro Farnese and now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, is the earliest known painted copy after the fresco.
Formerly attributed to Marcello Venusti, Como 1512/15-1579 Rome.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on mount, at center, beneath the drawing, in pen and black ink, "Marcello Venusti apressso / Michelangelo."; in the lower right corner in brown ink, "68"; on verso at upper center, in pen and brown ink, with Richardson's pressmarks, "CC 14. / Zs.24.h. / Marcello Venusti Mantovano discepolo di Perino del Vaga, poi amato dal Buonaroti, / per il quale copi ̣il suo Giudizio universale da regalarne il Card: Allessandro Farnese - / Abcedario Pitt.co"; in pencil, "#339 of Walpole Sale #352 / Feb. 1925. N.Y. Bx."; in violet pencil, set in a circle, "23"; in graphite, "N. L(?) Paris".
Associated names
Venusti, Marcello, ca. 1512-1579, Formerly attributed to.
Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Rogers, Charles, 1711-1784, former owner.
Hollstein-Rathau, Sophie von, Countess, former owner.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 219-220.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department